{"id":2492328,"date":"2025-09-29T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/address-leftist-ngo-complex-with-nonpartisan-voter-registration\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:00:07","slug":"address-leftist-ngo-complex-with-nonpartisan-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/address-leftist-ngo-complex-with-nonpartisan-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Address Leftist NGO Complex With &#8216;Nonpartisan&#8217; Voter Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faddress-leftist-ngo-complex-with-nonpartisan-voter-registration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2492328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article discusses the call from conservatives and moderates to dismantle hyper-politicized nonprofit organizations believed to facilitate left-wing extremism, focusing on the nonprofit voter registration industry as a prime target. Despite IRS rules prohibiting partisan electioneering by charities, groups like the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Everybody Votes Campaign (EVC) have operated with clear Democratic Party affiliations, registering millions of voters and receiving substantial funding. Both organizations have faced accusations of fraudulent activities and partisan tactics, such as targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megadonors-pour-record-amount-of-money-into-get-out-the-vote-effort-for-dems\/\" title=\"Megadonors Pour Record Amount of Money Into \u2018Get Out the Vote\u2019 Effort for Dems\">voter registration efforts<\/a> designed to favor Democratic voters. These groups also contribute to a broader left-wing activism network by providing voter data to Democrat PACs for campaigning and fundraising. Increasing scrutiny from elected officials and legal challenges have mounted against these organizations. Meanwhile, internal conflicts among democrats have emerged regarding the effectiveness and funding of such voter registration efforts following unexpected electoral shifts in 2024. the article suggests that revoking tax-exempt statuses and pursuing legal action against these groups could be a strategic move to weaken the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-deserve-plenty-of-blame-for-the-bank-crisis\/\" title=\"Democrats Deserve Plenty Of Blame For The Bank Crisis\">left-wing political infrastructure<\/a>, potentially restoring integrity to the charitable sector by limiting voter registration to political parties and certain political entities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the wake of Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination, conservatives and moderates alike are crying out for the decimation of hyper-politicized nonprofit organizations and the &ldquo;NGO complex&rdquo; that many believe enables and encourages left-wing extremism. The sentiment is correct, but the righteous anger is currently directionless, leading to dubious comments about &ldquo;hate speech,&rdquo; vague notions of charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and talk of investigations into Antifa funding, with no real sense of where to strike first. There needs to be a clear target, and it should be one easily hit for maximum effect.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;charitable&rdquo; voter registration industry&nbsp;<em>is that target,<\/em>&nbsp;and this is a&nbsp;<em>uniquely<\/em>&nbsp;opportune moment to hit it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/charities-non-profits\/charitable-organizations\/restriction-of-political-campaign-intervention-by-section-501c3-tax-exempt-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRS rules<\/a>&nbsp;prohibiting charitable groups from engaging in partisan electioneering, it&rsquo;s an open secret that a small army of voter registration nonprofits operates as an extension of the Democratic Party. In 2020, a Democrat Super PAC called Mind the Gap sent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/app\/uploads\/Mind-The-Gap-Internal-memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a>&nbsp;advising megadonors that the largest of these &ldquo;charitable&rdquo; groups, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/voter-participation-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voter Participation Center<\/a>&nbsp;(VPC) and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/voter-registration-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Everybody Votes Campaign<\/a> (EVC), were &ldquo;4 to 10 times more cost-effective than the next best alternative&rdquo; for &ldquo;netting additional Democratic votes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Everybody Votes Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>The EVC is the largest voter registration campaign&nbsp;in history. It has recorded more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everybodyvotes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7 million registrations<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/264802468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$200 million<\/a> in funding since 2015, when it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/app\/uploads\/CRC-Voter-Registration-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first conceived<\/a>&nbsp;for explicitly partisan reasons, as proved by emails between Democrat consultants and John Podesta.<\/p>\n<p>EVC&rsquo;s canvassers have been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/testimony-on-the-nonprofit-voter-registration-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly investigated<\/a>&nbsp;for submitting thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-election-worker-details-voter-fraud-investigation\/\" title=\"Arizona Election ...er Details Voter Fraud Investigation\">fraudulent registration forms<\/a> in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. The group is also one of the biggest donors to the New Georgia Project, a Georgia activist group recently fined $300,000 by the Georgia Ethics Commission for engaging in partisan electioneering on behalf of its founder, Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n<h2>Voter Participation Center<\/h2>\n<p>The VPC also has quite the &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; track record, registering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voterparticipation.org\/statement-the-voter-participation-center-center-for-voter-information-leave-x-in-response-to-elon-musks-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6.6 million voters<\/a>&nbsp;while causing more partisan scandals than one can count. As far back as 2012, left-leaning journalist Sasha Issenberg&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/the-lefts-secret-science-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>: &ldquo;Even though the group was officially nonpartisan, for tax purposes, there was no secret that the goal of all its efforts was to generate new votes for Democrats.&rdquo; In 2024 VPC was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/do-you-like-nascar-this-non-partisan-voter-registration-group-doesnt-want-to-help-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caught<\/a>&nbsp;filtering their Facebook and Instagram voter registration ads so that they specifically&nbsp;<em>weren&rsquo;t<\/em>&nbsp;shown to users interested in things like &ldquo;NASCAR,&rdquo; &ldquo;golf,&rdquo; &ldquo;Jeeps,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Duck Dynasty&rdquo; but&nbsp;<em>were<\/em>&nbsp;shown to users interested in &ldquo;African-American Literature,&rdquo; &ldquo;Jordan Peele,&rdquo; &ldquo;Taylor Swift,&rdquo; &ldquo;Patagonia,&rdquo; and &ldquo;hot yoga.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Left-wing Activism Supply Chain<\/h2>\n<p>Dozens of state-level affiliates exist downstream of these national groups as well, and they do more than just register voters. They also organize protests, advocate for policies, and, most importantly, upload the information from every voter registration to massive databases like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/democrats-voter-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NGP VAN<\/a>&nbsp;that are sold exclusively to Democrat PACs for use in mailing lists, fundraising, and canvassing. If all of these groups were suddenly stopped, it would devastate all levels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >left-wing activism supply chain<\/a>, and it would be very difficult to build replacements fast enough for the scheme to work again in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is there are already numerous elected officials calling for these fake &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-sam-bankman-fried-for-democrats-2022-ground-game\/\" title=\"Thank Sam Bankman-Fried For Democrats\u2019 2022\u00a0Ground Game\">voter registration groups<\/a> to be stopped or investigated. In the last year alone, the attorney general of Maryland sent the VPC a cease-and-desist&nbsp;leter over its invasive mailers, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/tenney.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Letter%20to%20IRS%20re%20VPC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;the IRS to investigate the VPC for filtering its Facebook ads, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dtj5wlj7ond0z.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Smit_USAGBondiLetter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">21 representatives in Michigan<\/a>&nbsp;signed a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her office to investigate the VPC and the EVC.<\/p>\n<h2>Left&rsquo;s Infighting<\/h2>\n<p>On the other side of the fence, the left&rsquo;s donors are now expressing doubts about whether their favorite &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; voter registration schemes will continue to work after the dramatic swing towards Republicans within several traditionally Democrat-dominated demographics during the 2024 election. For example, in April 2024, panicked Democratic strategists sent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/01\/democrats-voter-registration-minorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a controversial emergency memo<\/a>&nbsp;warning donors to stop funding &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; voter registration groups because young men and Latino voters were no longer reliably Democratic enough. Last month, The&nbsp;New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;&ldquo;a fierce fight is underway over how Democrats should address their sagging voter registration numbers and which groups should receive funding to do the work,&rdquo; and how these questions are &ldquo;pitting partisans against philanthropists.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With pressure already building from above and outside, the Trump administration has the chance to turn it up to eleven and send the entire &ldquo;charitable&rdquo; voter registration industry into disarray.<\/p>\n<h2>Possible Charges<\/h2>\n<p>At a minimum, the worst offenders &mdash; the VPC, EVC, and others like them &mdash; should have their tax-exempt statuses revoked, and donors to those groups should be sent requests for information and face inquiries about their own tax statuses.<\/p>\n<p>There are stronger options as well. Charges related to tax fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States could also be on the table for groups and donors that knowingly claimed a tax deduction for donations to non-exempt partisan work. Then, there&rsquo;s the nuclear option, in which the administration might also consider legislation or executive orders designating voter registration a non-exempt function,&nbsp;thus returning the work of registering voters to political parties, PACs, and 501(c)(4) groups, where it belongs. This might begin to restore the American charitable sector&rsquo;s once-stellar reputation.<\/p>\n<p>In short, if the goal is to dismantle the left-wing NGO complex, voter registration groups are the best place to start.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Parker Thayer is an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls grow to dismantle politicized nonprofits fueling left-wing extremism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3499,"featured_media":2492330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/39780721010_192b52cbc9_k-e1758836594695.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4717,63948,22512,50432],"class_list":["post-2492328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-leftist","tag-ngo-2","tag-nonpartisan","tag-voter-registration-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/39780721010_192b52cbc9_k-e1758836594695.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492332,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492328\/revisions\/2492332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}